Helping Skills: Chapter 12- Interpretive Skills

According to psychoanalytic theory, an interpretation

a. Focuses on current stressors

b. Should not be about transference

c. Helps replace unconscious processes with conscious ones

d. Is probably only given once in the treatment process

c. Helps replace unconscious processes with conscious ones

Interpretations should be

a. Within the client's awareness

b. Just slightly beyond the client's awareness

c. Completely beyond the client's awareness

d. None of the above

b. Just slightly beyond the client's awareness

It is recommended that open questions and probes for insight are

a. Given forcefully

b. Presented with infallible confidence

c. Said gently and with curiosity

d. Asked repeatedly until the client understands

c. Said gently and with curiosity

Open questions and probes for insight primarily

a. Invite clients to think about deeper meanings for thoughts, feelings, or

behaviors

b. Challenge clients about their conflicting values

c. Go beyond what the clients have overtly stated and present a new meaning,

reason, or explanation

d. Help clients explore their emotions

a. Invite clients to think about deeper meanings for thoughts, feelings, or

behaviors

According to narrative therapy, interpretations

a. Are used to disrupt problematic narratives

b. Help clients rewrite their narratives

c. Are used to help clients tell their narratives

d. All of the above

b. Help clients rewrite their narratives

Disclosures of insight can generally

a. Help alter the power balance of the helping relationship

b. Challenge the client

c. Assist the client in talking about the helping relationship

d. Nudge the client toward action

a. Help alter the power balance of the helping relationship

Pointing out themes or patterns in a client's behaviors, thoughts, or feelings is considered

a(n)

a. Challenge

b. Interpretation

c. Restatement

d. Reflection of feelings

b. Interpretation

"I wonder if your challenges in your current relationship stem from your experiences as a

child when you felt constantly rejected by your parents" is an example of an

a. Open question for thoughts

b. Open question for insight

c. Interpretation

d. Immediacy statement

c. Interpretation

Clients are more likely to change in the direction of the helper's interpretation if clients

view the helper as

a. Expert, attractive, and trustworthy

b. Expert, kind, and dedicated

c. Kind, attractive, and knowledgeable

d. Knowledgeable, trustworthy, and kind

a. Expert, attractive, and trustworthy

Interpretations can be phrased as

a. Direct statements

b. Process advisement

c. Questions

d. Both A and C

d. Both A and C

All of the following are examples of interpretations except

a. Explaining resistance

b. Offering a new framework or explanation to understand problems

c. Pointing out patterns

d. Making connections that the client has already made

d. Making connections that the client has already made

The accuracy of interpretations

a. Can never really be determined

b. Can be traced back

c. Is not relevant to the helping process

d. Is determined by how well the helper can envision the client's past

a. Can never really be determined

When using interpretive skills

a. The helper and the client should work together to role-play

b. The helper and the client should work together to construct meaning

c. The helper should provide expert advice about the client's core issues

d. The helper should provide direct guidance to the client

b. The helper and the client should work together to construct meaning

Disclosures of insight are a helping skill in which the helper

a. Reveals a self-understanding of their own personal experience

b. Shares a past emotional experience

c. Discloses a strategy that they have used

d. Divulges a shared experience with the client

a. Reveals a self-understanding of their own personal experience

Unconscious sources of data for developing interpretations are

a. Dreams

b. Fantasies

c. Slips of the tongue

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

In the core conflictual relationship theme, clients have

a. Wishes/needs, expected responses from others, and a response from the self

b. Wishes/needs, typical behavior from the self, and responses from the significant

other

c. Expected responses from others, expected responses from self, and responses

from the significant other

d. Expected responses from others, a response from the self, and rejection of others

a. Wishes/needs, expected responses from others, and a response from the self

When asking open questions and probes for insight, helpers should

a. Try to sound slightly judgmental

b. Give off an air of expertise

c. Be supportive and gentle

d. Try to absolve clients of their past mistakes

c. Be supportive and gentle

An ideal intervention for the first step in the interpretive process is a(n)

a. Interpretation

b. Immediacy statement

c. Reflection of feelings

d. Open question/probe for insight

d. Open question/probe for insight

According to cognitive psychology, interpretations

a. Can be beneficial for creating behavioral plans

b. Are a useless intervention

c. Can help attempt to change the structure of schemas

d. Are critical to the helping process

c. Can help attempt to change the structure of schemas

One of the most important aspects to keep in mind when delivering an intervention is

a. Your conceptualization of the client

b. The client's appearance

c. Your experience giving interpretations with other clients

d. The client's profession

a. Your conceptualization of the client